Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.
John BrunnerThere are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.
John BrunnerDon't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.
John Brunner